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Tuesday, 27th November

We spoke yesterday about the important of pushing on this month, and never settling for where you are, and the negatives and dangers of that attitude!

This is why measuring is so important for your mind and body.

I have had feedback time and time again that measuring does so much good for your physche!

If you can back up your efforts in black and white with inches off your waist, then this HAS to lift morale!!

If you can show on a blood pressure machine that your physical efforts have been that worthwhile that it has significantly strengthened your heart strength and health, then is always an instant tonic and will back up your training methods to the hilt!

If you can possibly lose 1-2% body fat in the toughest month of december, surely this says that you are indeed mentally strong, that you are working on a good programme and your clothes are fitting you better and better, probably to the point where some may be hanging off you, proving your overall shape is far better and the excess body fat you once had is quickly disappearing!!!

Doing things the scientific way will take the guess work out of your training and eating plan. I learned a long time ago not to leave your improvements to chance, to stay on top of all your training, and to nip any temporary slipping in progress well and truly in the bud!!!

Any process that is deemed to be successful has to be transparent, and i guarantee you that as long as you do 2-3 strength workouts every week, and you do 2-3 workouts that your hit your cardio in the right way, you are going to surprise yourself on how quickly you come on!!

Measuring every four weeks is complete transparency and is a proven system to achieve ultimate success.

Twitt
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Monday, 26th November

Personally i got through a lot of measurements on different individuals last week, and one thing was hammered home to them……………that this next four weeks are absolutely critical.

It’s always vital to finish off the year strong for all sorts of reasons.

If you finish off 2012 well, you set the right tone straight away for 2013!

If you have a good december full of hard training, you are less likely to overdo it on the food side of things, you won’t want to blow all the hard work.

It’s always nice not being “part of the crowd” too. Whilst most of your friends or relatives who exercise from time to time have probably long given it up for the year, doesn’t it feel good realising that you do actually have the grit and determination in you to carry on and finish off the year very strong?!!

If you have reached a partiicular level in your training, or for example you have taken off 8 inches off your waist all year and surely you don’t want to put 2-3 inches back on? Just as you are doing so well?

What if you have dropped 10% body fat this year? It doesn’t sound as good if you put 3-4% body fat on in december!

To reach these particularly high levels in development and progress, you must have worked hard, you must have shown great courage and my guess if that you already have a good degree of mental strength.

All i want you to do is show that courage for one more month, and really enjoy your christmas far more this year being in the best shape you possibly can!!! Wouldn’t it be great having compliments on the way you look before christmas, and have absolutely no pressure in getting into shape AFTER christmas because you are ALREADY in top shape!!!

Let’s put everything together and hit it hard one last time!!

Twitt
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Friday, 23rd November

Balance is everything when it comes to eating.

A good diet is no substitute for exercise.

It makes no sense to eat well while pursuing a sedentary lifestyle. Exercise increases metabolism and burns more calories. When you are fit, your body utilises nutrients much more effectively.

Make sure you don’t skip meals either.

Your body quickly adapts when you don’t eat enough, and quickly lowers its metabolism, the rate your body burns calories. By eating too little, you set yourself up for future weight gains.

Don’t be obsessed with weight.

It’s the rato of lean body mass (bones, internal organs and muscle) to fat that counts.

If you are tracking your weight however, just weigh yourself once a week ONLY, on the same day at the same time. Your weight will vary from day to day largely on the basis of how much water is in your system.

Do not consumer more than 600 calories per meal if you are trying to lose weight.

This is the maximum number of calories that most people can metabolise without storing fat. Eat smaller meals and supplement with healthy snacks.

If you use all of these tips when it comes to managing your body, you will always stay in the range you want to be in.

Commit yourself to being sustainable when it comes to being in shape, don’t fall for fads and always stay positive even when everything around you seems gloomy!!!

Aim to stay healthy internally, that way your outside will look after itself.

Twitt
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Thursday, 22nd November

The famous christmas “let’s settle for no improvements, let’s just hold what we have” is alive and well this year again, perhaps even more so. This is your most dangerous mindset to avoid if you possibly can because its bound to end up in you putting ON weight, in my experience.

“Settling” for mediocrity shuts off something in the brain that usually makes you strive for success.

Once your mind isn’t in the right gear, then your workouts will soon become “go through the motions” events that will give us little in terms of benefits.

The next stage after settling for medicore returns is giving up your programme for december, another disasterous decision.

The next stage after that means “i will start back after christmas”! Many people actually do this!! Then they find out that they should never have stopped training in the first place because training after christmas after a break is EXTREMELY TOUGH!!!

When things are tough, the prospects of following through on a programme diminish dramatically, as not everyone has got the right in them to see it through!

This is why most people who start a programme after christmas tend to quit by Valentine’s day at the latest!! Please do not end up as one of those sad statistics!!

This is why i come back to saying that you need to aim to improve from RIGHT NOW again and maybe for the first time, december can really become one of your BEST month’s, instead of becoming one when you end up piling on the weight, you end up becoming breathless just climbing a flight of stairs, and your friends and family start asking you that dreaded question “have you put weight on?!!!”.

I have seen all of these stages work out different ways, but taking my advice and actually acting on it will mean a great deal for your overall christmas happiness and success starting off in 2013!!!!

Twitt
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Wednesday, 21st November

Hopefully now that you have realized that the so called “wonder” supplements I mentioned yesterday, are not really the super cure all’s that they claim to be!

My feelings on weight loss clubs are well documented, and I will leave it to the last few scientific studies who show they give false hope and continually make false claims to dupe people into buying their nutritionally deficient and chemically enhanced products that are somehow called “food” for some reason!

Unfortunately, many people will still go there in January and fall for the same old story after putting lots of weight on over Christmas. Groundhog day again I predict!

Surely by reading this thing most days, isn’t it time you simplified matters and your whole life by going into a supermarket and buying most of your food NATURAL and where possible, FRESH!!!
DRINK 1.5 LITRES OF PLAIN TAP WATER A DAY instead of buying drinks full of chemicals that people will promise you that will suddenly help you lose a lot of weight.

YES, YOU CAN DO THIS!!!

Decide not to accept the rubbish you are constantly fed by organisations who are trying to steal your money out of your pocket and bank account for methods of weight loss that will END UP PUTTING IT ALL BACK ON AND MORE!!!!

Get out there and exercise more, get on a proper plan, walk for 30 minutes a day, and I guarantee you will sleep well every night!

Don’t drink alcohol more than once a week, this will keep your body fat low, your blood pressure healthy and your heart much stronger!!!

I have been blunt today, but this is designed to save you money and actually to get you to do something that works, it’s a free country and up to you to decide if you really want to get in good physical condition or not!!!

Twitt